The Open Fuels & Energy Science Journal

2015, 8 : 206-210
Published online 2015 September 28. DOI: 10.2174/1876973X01508010206
Publisher ID: TOEFJ-8-206

The Research of Measuring Approach and Energy Efficiency for Hadoop Periodic Jobs

Yu Junyang , Hu Zhigang and Han Yuanyuan
Software School, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410075, P.R. China.

ABSTRACT

Current consumption of cloud computing has attracted more and more attention of scholars. The research on Hadoop as a cloud platform and its energy consumption has also received considerable attention from scholars. This paper presents a method to measure the energy consumption of jobs that run on Hadoop, and this method is used to measure the effectiveness of the implementation of periodic tasks on the platform of Hadoop. Combining with the current mainstream of energy estimate formula to conduct further analysis, this paper has reached a conclusion as how to reduce energy consumption of Hadoop by adjusting the split size or using appropriate size of workers (servers). Finally, experiments show the effectiveness of these methods as being energy-saving strategies and verify the feasibility of the methods for the measurement of periodic tasks at the same time.

Keywords:

Energy efficiency, Energy saving, Hadoop, Measurement method.